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Deluge of Atlantis

Deluge of Atlantis

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

James Churchward had made a great deal out of an "Inner Asian Empire ruled by White People" and made it one of the most important forces in prehistory. As usual, he got a few things mixed up. But there was a time that a caucasiatic people controlled the very heart of Asia, and right up against the Mongols of the Gobi desert as well.

One of the most famous Tocharian mummies found is the "Beauty of Loulan" - Her face depicted on the right was reconstructed by an artist.

A Tocharian man with red-blond
hair; his clear European
features still visible after lying
nearly 3,500 years in his desert grave in China

Tocharian male mummy. To his right
is a swastika decoration found on his helmet
recovered from the
Tocharian grave sites.
The swastika was part of the original Indo-European
language, meaning "well being" or "Good luck"

Recent excavations in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang province have uncovered more than 100 naturally mummified corpses of people who lived
there between 4,000 and 2,400 years ago, indicating that the European race of red and blonde hair with blue eyes lived in this area at one time. The
bodies were amazingly well preserved by the arid climate, and according to the New York Times "...archaeologists could hardly believe what they
saw."

The mummies had long noses and skulls, blond or red hair, thin lips, deepset eyes, and other unmistakably Europeanan features. Dr. Victor H. Mair of
the University of Pennsylvania said, "Because the Tarim Basin Caucasoid corpses are almost certainly representatives of the Indo-European
family, and because they date from a time period early enough to have a bearing on the expansion of the Indo-European people from their
homeland, it is thought that they will play a crucial role in determining just where that might have been."

One such mummy is of a teenage girl with blond hair and blue eyes. Her remains was found in a cave and has become quite a tourist attraction
in Beijing. She has been given the name, "The Lady of Tarim" and is on display at the museum. It is believed that she was someone of
importance who lived over 3,000 years ago. She was found buried in fine embroidered garments of wool and leather, along with beautiful
jewelry, jars and ornaments of gold, silver, jade and onyx. Her remains are in such a remarkable state of preservation that she looks as if she
was sleeping.

4000-year-old China body has red hair and kilt
A 4000-YEAR-OLD Chinese mummy has been claimed as a Scot - because of its red hair and kilt-like dress.
The origins of the mummy, known as the Beauty of Xiaohe, have been the subject of much debate since she was found in Xinjiang region in western China.
Other mummified remains found in the region have been linked to warriors of the Caledonii tribe.
The Beauty is on show in Philadelphia in the US as part of the Chinese Secrets Of The Silk Road exhibition.
One source who viewed the mummy, believed to be among the earliest inhabitants of the Xinjiang region, said: "The hair has an orange tint and she looks Celtic or Scottish. The clothes had plaid patterns, like Scottish kilts."
The mummies linked to the Caledonii have red-brown hair and a ginger beard and wore tartan leggings.
The bodies are better preserved than Egyptian mummies and similarities to traditional Bronze Age Celts are said to be uncanny.

Updated:

They did a DNA test on the Cherchen man (the 3800 year old 6'6 tall dark blonde mummy and the oldest mummy found), and the beauty of Loulan (the red hair mummy), and both of these mummies contained East Asian Mongoloid DNA. Even the Chinese scientist were astonished. The Mongoloid component of the Tocharians are not from Han Chinese or pre Han Chinese, but most likely from Altaic types of Mongoloids such as Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and Mongolians.

This obviously indicates that the Tocharians were already mixed for quite a few generations, since they looked mostly Caucasian. Very interesting. History books need to rewritten again, as intermingling between East and West occured at an even earlier date than conceived.

BTW, The Tocharians were not Iranic, its been proven over and over again. There language was so far from any Iranic language, that it needs its own seperate category: Tocharian.

New 2007 NG documentary on the mummies. It was released Nov 2007, and it aired on the National Geographic channel. It was very interesting It was again with Victor Mair, (the man whom brought the mummies into the Western World). The Chinese governement finally allowed more DNA test to go foward on just 12 mummies.

The conclusion on DNA test on all 12 samples of the Caucasoid mummies contained DNA from: Europe, Mesopotamia, Central Asia, Mongolia, India, and Siberia. So to make a long story short, the ending of the documentary concluded that Xinjiang was a crossroads town where people from all over came, traded, and mixed with each other. The documentary was incomplete but It was still good and informative. The documentary also stated that the test were not done and more information will be released once completed. They should have just finish the test before making this documentary as it was very vague but it was still informative.

Cherchen Man (dark blonde man that stood 6'6)

Beauty Of Loulan (red haired mummy)

Roman accountsPliny the Elder (, Chap XXIV "Taprobane") reports a curious description of the Seres (in the territories of northwestern China) made by an embassy from Taprobane (Ceylon) to Emperor Claudius, saying that they "exceeded the ordinary human height, had flaxen hair, and blue eyes, and made an uncouth sort of noise by way of talking", suggesting they may be referring to the ancient Caucasian populations of the Tarim Basin:"They also informed us that the side of their island (Taprobane) which lies opposite to India is ten thousand stadia in length, and runs in a south-easterly direction-[This incidentally descibes Sumatra better than Ceylon-DD]-that beyond the Emodian Mountains (Himalayas) they look towards the Serve (Seres), whose acquaintance they had also made in the pursuits of commerce; that the father of Rachias (the ambassador) had frequently visited their country, and that the Seræ always came to meet them on their arrival. These people, they said, exceeded the ordinary human height, had flaxen hair, and blue eyes, and made an uncouth sort of noise by way of talking, having no language of their own for the purpose of communicating their thoughts. The rest of their information (on the Serae) was of a similar nature to that communicated by our merchants. It was to the effect that the merchandise on sale was left by them upon the opposite bank of a river on their coast, and it was then removed by the natives, if they thought proper to deal on terms of exchange. On no grounds ought luxury with greater reason to be detested by us, than if we only transport our thoughts to these scenes, and then reflect, what are its demands, to what distant spots it sends in order to satisfy them, and for how mean and how unworthy an end!"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_mummieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_mummies

(Seres=Silk People, the dealers-in-silk)

The Tocharians [Tokharians] were a fully Indo-Europid people that lived in parts of modern-day "China", primarily in the west of modern-day Xinjiang 新疆 [‘New Frontier’] of which only since a decade or two became more known of. That being said, primarily because of the Chinese government allowing a bit more than what was the case in the past, regardless of their attitude to the whole ‘mummy people’ as a whole.

The Tocharians remained fully Europid during their ‘stay’, far longer than expected or than anyone could've dreamt - even with rather fair features in complexion - for thousands of years. This shocked many of the multiculturalist archeologists and anthropologists, but they couldn't deny it.

Aside that they were also responsible for founding and spreading the Indo-European religions Hinduism and Buddhism, of which in the latter case most Tocharians belonged to spiritually and theologically. Not only that, perhaps just a mere detail, but most amazingly perhaps is that they brought both the horse and the wheel to China; which both didn't exist there prior to their arrival. Those horses, by the way, ironically used against many other peoples in the world - mostly Europids - as the Mongols grew united and started their expansion in approximately the year 1100 after Christ.

This image has been resized. Click this bar to view the full image. The original image is sized 512x289 and weights 16KB.Takla Makan desert region, nowadays the Tarim Basin

Mair has claimed that:The new finds are also forcing a reexamination of old Chinese books that describe historical or legendary figures of great height, with deep-set blue or green eyes, long noses, full beards, and red or blond hair. Scholars have traditionally scoffed at these accounts, but it now seems that they may be accurateTarim mummies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Around 2300 BC, Aryan tribes (Indo-Iranians) poured off the Pontic Steppes, and migrated east & south. By ~1800 BC, they had reached China & India. In the figure below, these Indo-Iranians' original homelands are colored dark red, while their migrations are marked in light red*:

This expansion coincides with a catastrophic climate change, around 2200 BC**, which laid low Egypt's Old Kingdom***.
[Around here we refer to that as the Old Kingdom Catastrophe. In regards to this map it is important to note that THE TOCHARIANS BELONGED TO THE BLUE GROUP OF EUROPEANS (incl. Celtic) RATHER THAN TO THE RED ONES: They were Centum speakers and not Satem ones.]

Meanwhile, the Indo-European Ancestors (Afanasevo culture) had already settled southern Siberia, north of the Himalayas & northwest of China, from 3500 to 2500 BC*. Like the Indo-Iranians, the proto-Tocharians then migrated south & east, to the Takla Makan desert, west of China. There, mummies, dating from 1800 to 1000 BC, show clear "Europoid" Aryan features**. These proto-Tocharians herded sheep, and used horses, donkeys, & carts. They likely introduced the Chinese to sophisticated wool weaving, the wheel, & bronze. By 1000 BC, they had established vast trading networks. By 300 BC, they were trading, with the Chinese, in silk, probably starting MUCH earlier.

In sum, archaeological evidence shows "trade networks right across Asia" by 2000 BC, and "possibly earlier", nearly 2000 years before Emperor Ch'in opened up the Silk Road to Roman merchants*. Indeed, the Ulu Burun shipwreck, in the Aegean, from the 14th Century BC, contains:

Copper ingots, from the Middle East

Pottery, from Cyprus & the Levant

Elephant tusks & ebony logs, from Equatorial Africa

Tin & colored glass, from Central Asia

Gold, from Egypt

Ornaments, from Mycenaean Greece

This shows that the "greater part of the Mediterranean in antiquity was connected by trade", to the Middle East and Central Asia**.

*Mysteries of the Ancient World (Episode II) (DVD) [36:00]. Moreover, the proto-Tocharians' sheep, from analysis of their wools, were of European (not Chinese) stock.** History Channel Digging for the Truth -- Troy: of Gods & Warriors (DVD)

CONCLUSION:By linking all the lands, from China to Mesopotamia, with one single culture, the Indo-European tribes paved the (proto-) Silk Road, by 2000 BC*.

NOW THEN, I'll tell you something which went unnoticed for a century until these mummies statrted turning up again.

Ignatius Donnelly had mentioned these Tocharians an by name in 1882, long before the press heard anything about the redheaded mummies in China. And until I btrought the matter up myself, nobody saw the connection because even Donnely was talking about a different time and place. Donnelly in Atlantis, the Antediluvian World says in chapter VIII, The Bronze Age in Europe,

For the merchants of the Bronze Age we must look beyond even the Tokhari, who
were contemporaries of the Phœnicians.

CELTIC WARRIOR, FROM EGYPTIAN MONUMENTS.

The Tokhari, we have seen, are represented as taken prisoners, in a sea-fight
with Ramses III., of the twentieth dynasty, about the thirteenth century B.C.
They are probably the Tochari of Strabo. The accompanying figure
represents one of these people as they appear upon the Egyptian monuments. (See
Nott and Gliddon's "Types of Mankind," p. 108.) Here we have, not an inhabitant
of Atlantis, but probably a representative of one of the mixed races that sprung
from its colonies.
Dr. Morton thinks these people, as painted on the Egyptian monuments, to have
"strong Celtic features. Those familiar with the Scotch Highlanders may
recognize a speaking likeness."
It is at least interesting to have a portrait of one of the daring race who
more than three thousand years ago left the west of Europe in their ships to
attack the mighty power of Egypt. [They are, in fact, one of the "Peoples of the Sea" fleeing Megalithic Europe during a Catastrophe!-DD]
They were troublesome to the nations of the East for many centuries; for in
700 B.C. we find them depicted on the Assyrian monuments. This figure represents
one of the Tokhari of the time of Sennacherib. It will be observed that the
headdress (apparently of feathers) is the same in both portraits, although
separated by a period of six hundred years. [At this time they were mercenaries and guardsmen. Doubtless many had been hired on as guards along the perilous caravan routes to Central Asia, where we finally find them carving out a new land for themselves in the most unlikely place, but where they had a complete blocade on the only trade artery running to China!]
It is more reasonable to suppose that the authors of thep. 245[paragraph
continues] Bronze Age of Europe were the people described by
Plato, who were workers in metal, who were highly civilized, who preceded in
time all the nations which we call ancient. It was this people who passed through
an age of copper before they reached the age of bronze, and whose colonies in
America represented this older form of metallurgy as it existed for many
generations. [ie, the Atlanteans were originally Chalcolithic rather than bronze-casters, a very sound conclusion-DD]

['TOKHARI'] CELTIC WARRIOR, FROM ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS.

What Donnelly has told us, without specifying exactly, was that the Bronze Age of Europe was run by a unified trade network of nations including the makers of the Nordic Bronze Age in Scandinavia and the Atlantic Bronze Age with headquarters in Tartessos.were descendants of the original Atlanteans, many held the myth of their origin on an island which they called Paradise, and they recognised a commonality of their nations as being Atlanteans. We know this from Classical authors. At the time of the Phaethon event, All these people stopped what they were doing, uprooted and fled to the Eastern Mediterranean as Pirates and mercenaries, comprising an astonishing variety of nations recognising their brotherhood but desperate beyond measure. And one of these Western-European nations of a race, language and physical type related to the Celts, escaped from the fall of the Megalithic culture and would up circa 1000 BC (the date is disputable) on the Borderland Wilderness of China. And they had something to do with the introduction of megalths and mound-burials in the region, something else mentioned by Donnelly at another time.

Although it may not look like it at first glance, Donnelly is defining Atlantean Europe as Megalithic Europe (with its Bronze Age Successor). In the case of the Tocharians, he knew the megalithic cullture was related from the descriptions but he did not say that a specific Western-European people were responsible for transplanting European culture there. Such seems to have been the case. Icidentally the Megalithic culture in Southern India was also starting about the same time as the Tocharians were.

How the West Was Lost by Native Americans

Everybody knows that Europeans took a lot of land from Native Americans, but this animated GIF by Tumblr user sunisup gives a great sense of just how fast the people living in North America were pushed west after Christopher Columbus "discovered" the continent.
She turned an old graphic by Louisiana State professor Sam B. Hillard into a mini-movie that viscerally demonstrates the gradual chopping away of Native American land through cessions, or a surrender of territory to another entity. The green represents Native American land, and any part that turns white was ceded. She writes: "Made because I was having trouble visualizing the sheer scale of the land loss, and reading numbers like 'blah blah million acres' wasn’t really doing it for me." Numbers wise, the amount of green land shown after 1895 is about 2.3 percent of the original size.
Hillard got his information from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of American Ethnology. The history of Native Americans is complicated, so the graphic only documents land that was ceded. Any land that was ceded but then later turned into a reservation may shop up again later in the time lapse. Whatever the in-between negotiations, it's clear the land disappeared quickly. The difference between 1784 and present day Indian reservations is striking.sunisup.tumblr.com (via atlasextinctnations.blogspot.com)

Stone Tools Point to Creative Work by Early Humans in Africa

Published: November 12, 2012

At a rock shelter on a coastal cliff in South Africa, scientists have found an abundance of advanced stone hunting tools with a tale to tell of the evolving mind of early modern humans at least 71,000 years ago.

Benjamin Schoville

ARTIFACTS The excavations have uncovered caches of advanced stone hunting tools, including spear tips and other small blades, or microliths, which suggest that modern Homo sapiens in Africa had a grasp of complex technologies. The research team’s report challenges a Eurocentric theory of modern human development.

Simen Oestmo

The discovery, reported in the current issue of the journal Nature, lends weight to the hypothesis that not only did anatomically modern Homo sapiens emerge in Africa but also, to a previously unsuspected extent, their cognitive capacity for abstract and creative thought and the conception of increasingly complex technologies associated with modern human behavior.

The report describes the stone tools as microliths, thin blades about only an inch long that could be affixed to wood or bone. These tipped projectiles were either arrows propelled by bows or, more likely, spears launched by atlatls, wooden extensions of the throwing arm that act as a lever, imparting greater speeds and distances to the weapon. This technology, the researchers said, may have been pivotal to the success of Homo sapiens as humans left Africa and entered Eurasia some 50,000 years ago, encountering Neanderthals who were limited to hand-thrown spears.

The new evidence appeared to answer some critics who have contended that previous findings of early modern human behavior in Africa have been spotty and short-lived — a “flickering” pattern of experimentation with little or no continuity over time and across regions. The rock shelter excavations at Pinnacle Point, near Mossel Bay, east of Cape Town, show that this micro-blade technology continued over 11,000 years, until 60,000 years ago. The report says the technology was also “typically coupled to heat treatment” processes in shaping sharp and durable blades that persisted for nearly 100,000 years.

In their article in Nature, the researchers conclude, “Early modern humans in South Africa had the cognition to design and transmit at high fidelity these coupled recipe technologies.”

One of the authors, Curtis W. Marean, director of the research and a paleoanthropologist at the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, said, “Every time we excavate a new site in coastal South Africa with advanced field techniques, we discover new and surprising results that push back in time the evidence for uniquely human behaviors.”

The lead author of the report was Kyle S. Brown, a specialist in ancient stone tools who is associated with the University of Cape Town. Prior investigations showed that this microlithic technology appeared briefly between 65,000 and 60,000 years ago and then seemed to vanish. Such thin blades had not been found in abundance (in Europe) until about 20,000 years ago. (make that 10000)

Dr. Marean said in a telephone interview that while some archaeologists were still skeptical of a strong African role in modern human behavior, there was diminishing support for the more Eurocentric “creative explosion” concept, born of bedazzlement over the cave art and fine tools of Upper Paleolithic Europe, which became widespread after the arrival of modern humans.

“Ninety percent of scientists are comfortable that fully modern humans and human cognition developed in Africa,” Dr. Marean said. “Now they have moved on. The questions are, how much earlier than 71,000 years did these behaviors emerge? Was it an accretionary process, or was it an abrupt event? Did these people have language by this time?”

Like many other archaeologists, Dr. Marean and his team have concentrated their investigations in the caves and rock shelters overlooking the Indian Ocean. In a global ice age beginning 72,000 years ago, many Africans fled the continent’s arid interior, heading for the more benign southern shore. Access to seafood and more plentiful plant and animal resources may have increased populations and encouraged technological advances, Dr. Marean said.

The well-preserved artifacts at Pinnacle Point, collected over a recent 18-month period, led the researchers to conclude that the advanced technologies in Africa “were early and enduring.” Other archaeologists who reached different conclusions may have been misled by the “small sample of excavated sites,” they said.

Richard G. Klein, a paleoanthropologist at Stanford University who has favored a more sudden and recent origin of modern behavior, about 50,000 years ago, questioned the reliability of the dating method for the tools, noting that “there is another team that has already argued for a much longer” time period for the toolmaking culture.

The new report, Dr. Klein said in an e-mail, “does illustrate, as have many others, that the archaeological evidence for modern human origins is controversial.”

The hypothesis of earlier African origins of modern human behavior and cognition has been gaining strength over the last decade or two. Two archaeologists, Alison S. Brooks of George Washington University and Sally McBrearty of the University of Connecticut, led the charge with publications of their analysis of increasing evidence of African art and ornamentations expressing a modern cognitive capacity and symbolic thinking.

In a commentary accompanying the Nature report, Dr. McBrearty, who was not involved in the research, wrote that she believed that “modern cognitive capacity emerged at the same time as modern anatomy, and that various aspects of human culture arose gradually” over the course of subsequent millenniums.

Dr. McBrearty gave a cautious endorsement of the new research from Pinnacle Point relating complex technologies to the evolution of modern behavior in Africa. She said the findings “go some way to supporting this hypothesis.”

A version of this article appeared in print on November 13, 2012, on page D3 of the New York edition with the headline: Stone Tools Point to Creative Work by Early Humans in Africa.

The really surprising thing is that the microlithic technology is elsewhere and in general tied to advanced preagricultural societies after the ice ages had endined, and considerably close to civilisation that people were thought to be so far bak. It seems that there was a protocivilisation in Africa all the way as far back as the Toba eruption which statrted this last bout of Ice Ages (the Wurm or Wisconsin glaciation) and which persisted in Africa while the earlier wave of humans died out. The microlith-users persisted in Afriica even up to the time of the replacement wave out of Africa and was associated with such things as early use of bows and arrows (which is typical of microlithic cultures in other places) andthen after a while people slipped back and forgot their higher culture with the beginnings of agriculture, bows, arrows and microliths. Moreover this may have happened as many times as twice more in Subsaharan Africa before the Ice Ages ended and these advanced traits took root outside of Africa. -- Best Wishes, Dale D.

Friday, November 2, 2012

Planetary alignment that will take place Dec 3, 2012 is dead-on alignment with the Pyramids at Giza. Night Sky in Giza, Egypt on December 3, 2012, local time … one hour before sunrise compared with the Pyramids at Giza.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

I had an interesting letter recently from Brian Marcks in which he pointed out a submerged structure he found with the help of Google and which looked to him as though it might be a meteorite crater. the important part of his message follows:

I used the Google Satellite Map and followed the trajectory of the crater and scars eastward along the orbit path. Then I found the 80 km crater just off the coast of Haiti. Thus, I think we may be dealing with a Schumaker-Levy comet breakup scenario. Also, the Haiti crater lines up with the long axes of some of the Carolina Bay craters in South Carolina, Georgia and southern North Carolina. I submitted the information on the crater and my hypothesis to the PASSC Database for Earth Impact craters.
Brian Marcks

New 80 km undersea crater South of Haiti submitted by Brian Marcks, at far right

Brian has suggested the name "Comet Atlan" for the name of the Younger Dryas impacting body.
His description of a comet breaking up and falling to Earth in pieces fits some of the evidence, but so far the chunks of meteorite we have recovered from this event have been mostly metallic or mineral in nature, so an asteroid still might be a better choice: we also might be dealing with a swarm of different bodies of different nature travelling together, both stony and icy, but which would be described as a comet to ground observers. This has also been suggested in some cometary swarm scenarios, Marcks and I were also discussing Donnelly's book RAGNAROK in connection to the impact scenario.

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